Why the war on terror is not the Cold War. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online For much of the 1990s the autocrats of the former Yugoslavia seized control of the fragmenting country and initiated an ethnically inspired bloodbath. Share This
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A Memorial Day tale about a few very good men. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Yesterday, our rural mail carrier delivered to our farm a ring in a small box — of worn metal, its band cut in half, with a strange signet inset of a Roman legionary. Share This
A glimmer of hope along the Kabul/Palestine/Baghdad Axis. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online In the Greek myth of Pandora’s Box, after the naïve young girl (named “All the Gifts”) opens the forbidden lid, and a host of evils flies out to plague the world — hope alone is left behind to counterbalance the
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by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online American professors have long lectured to our students about purported Western biases and cruel misconceptions toward the “Other.” Share This
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No matter the era, no mater the weapons, the same old hell. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Magazine War is eternal. It is part of the human condition; it is, as Heraclitus wrote, “the father of us all.” Share This
The landscape of the current war is especially bleak. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Since 9/11 there continues to come a swirl of bizarre images of this conflict — military, political, and cultural. In their aggregate, these symbols finally overwhelm the senses and lead to a profound sense of despair — if also
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Frightening extremist rhetoric from America’s critics. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Watching televised clips from a recent pro-Palestinian rally in Washington, along with other such demonstrations over the last few weeks, can be a chilling experience. Share This
by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Sophocles once wrote a magnificent play about the Greeks’ greatest fighter at Troy after Achilles — Ajax, as irreplaceable in war as he proved expendable in peace. Share This
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From the unthinkable to the passe in an instant. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Battle begins to take on a logic of its own, as the world itself does not stop at the sound of gunfire, but in fact goes on — and on, and on each day, peeling off an old layer
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Let us count the ways by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online The Palestinian Authority and spokesmen from the Arab world are now advancing a new party line by comparing their own struggle to our American Revolution — with overt associations between the Founding Fathers and Mr. Arafat and his associates! Share This
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